dimeb

Dimeb (short for the German “digital media in education“) is a project group within the larger Center of Interactivity with Digital Media (ZIM) . The project group offers a certificate for the use of digital media in education for students of education, digital media as well as computer science. Beyond that dimeb provides regular workshops for teens and holds several projects in (elementary as well as high) schools led by the group's staff. I find it interesting that two of the leading figures here are women in their late 50s both with a background in the humanities and now embedded within the department of computer science and mathematics. It makes me want to know more about gender specificity and digital media education, also in relation to science studies/the humanities.

It is astonishing though to find dimeb's webpage except for the main page only accessible in German (and with the ZIM it's even worse). How does this limited self-presentation speak for dimeb's agenda of education (can it be related to its being part of the computer science/maths department?) and of the relation to notions of the national, globalization, space and communication (and declared cooperations are with universities in Ireland, Sweden, Thailand, the US)?

The main concerns of dimeb, judging on its website's statements, seems to be a rather abstract idea of digital media literacy within education, but without any relation to 'the world' and hereby I also mean everyday life as such.